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en-usMedical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.User-friendly medication packaging design can boost patient safetyMedication errors are a common patient safety issue in the United States, with 1.5 million adverse drug events reported annually, often occurring in a home or other outpatient setting. Past research has indicated that inadequate or confusing labeling on packages of over-the-counter (OTC) medications is a likely contributor to many unintentional overdoses, particularly among the elderly population. "Package Design Affects Accuracy Recognition for Medications," published in the December issue of Human Factors, suggests that a simple redesign of medication packages can lead to a decrease in the frequency of patient errors and accidental overdoses.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-user-friendly-medication-packaging-boost-patient.html
HealthFri, 09 Dec 2016 18:34:58 ESTnews400530878Women sue healthcare giant Bayer over contraceptive implantsFrench lawyers for women who say a contraceptive implant sold by Bayer Healthcare had caused a string of medical complications launched a lawsuit against the multinational on Friday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-women-sue-healthcare-giant-bayer.html
MedicationsFri, 09 Dec 2016 14:44:20 ESTnews400517054Could regular pot smoking harm vision?(HealthDay)—Smoking pot regularly may be linked to a limited degree of vision impairment, a new French study suggests.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-regular-pot-vision.html
OphthalmologyThu, 08 Dec 2016 16:34:16 ESTnews400437248Prostate cancer patients more likely to die of other diseases, say 15-year PLCO resultsStarting in 1993 and ending in 2001, ten academic medical centers in the United States screened 76,685 men and 78,216 women for prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancers. The question was whether yearly screening could catch cancers early and thus decrease mortality from these diseases. Fifteen-year follow-up results focusing on prostate cancer were published this month in the journal Cancer, and show little difference in mortality between men screened annually and the control group, some of whom chose to be screened occasionally. According to researchers, the results don't necessarily negate the value of prostate cancer screening, but imply that within the data of this massive trial are clues that inform personalized decisions for subsets of this prostate cancer population.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-prostate-cancer-patients-die-diseases.html
CancerThu, 08 Dec 2016 13:26:38 ESTnews400425988Collaboration between media and medical journals often leads to misinformation and hysteriaWhen flawed clinical research is reported in the media with hype and sensationalism, it has the potential to have a devastating effect on patients, physicians, the scientific community and eventually society as a whole.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-collaboration-media-medical-journals-misinformation.html
HealthThu, 08 Dec 2016 12:15:58 ESTnews400421741Depression in pregnancy—why doing nothing about it may be a bad ideaPregnant women face a number of choices. Most are pretty noncontroversial: Don't smoke or use drugs; avoid raw fish and eggs; get lots of rest. But one dilemma some pregnant women face is less intuitive: whether and how to treat their minds and bodies if they are depressed.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-depression-pregnancywhy-bad-idea.html
Psychology & PsychiatryThu, 08 Dec 2016 07:19:27 ESTnews400403956Doctors need to develop broader skill of empathyDeveloping a broader skill of empathy is a more realistic goal for medical students and doctors than urging them to be more compassionate. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr David Jeffrey, an honorary lecturer in palliative medicine at the Centre for Population Health Sciences in Edinburgh, says that doctors are at risk not only of personal distress but eventually burnout if their feelings of sympathy and compassion for patients override the more nuanced stance of empathy.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-doctors-broader-skill-empathy.html
Psychology & PsychiatryTue, 06 Dec 2016 19:00:01 ESTnews400267876Study finds high rate of depression, suicidal ideation among medical studentsA review and analysis of nearly 200 studies involving 129,000 medical students in 47 countries found that the prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms was 27 percent, that 11 percent reported suicidal ideation during medical school, and only about 16 percent of students who screened positive for depression reportedly sought treatment, according to a study appearing in the December 6 issue of JAMA, a medical education theme issue.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-high-depression-suicidal-ideation-medical.html
Psychology & PsychiatryTue, 06 Dec 2016 11:00:03 ESTnews400239652Prevalence of disability among students in US medical schoolsNew research has identified a higher prevalence of disability among students in U.S. allopathic medical schools (2.7 percent) than prior studies (0.3 percent to 0.6 percent), according to a study appearing in the December 6 issue of JAMA, a medical education theme issue.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-prevalence-disability-students-medical-schools.html
OtherTue, 06 Dec 2016 11:00:02 ESTnews400239592Anticoagulants to reduce stroke risk may increase incidence of heart attacksMedical researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich have discovered why a new class of anticoagulants designed to reduce the risk of strokes can—in rare cases—increase the incidence of heart attacks.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-anticoagulants-incidence-heart.html
CardiologyTue, 06 Dec 2016 08:51:25 ESTnews400236669Antipsychotic medications worsen delirium symptoms and hasten deathAntipsychotic medication typically used to treat patients with delirium may be ineffective at best and hasten death at worst, new research shows.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-antipsychotic-medications-worsen-delirium-symptoms.html
HealthTue, 06 Dec 2016 07:00:37 ESTnews400230024How will electronic medical records and patient portals change patient careJudy Faulkner, CEO of Epic Systems, the dominant U.S. provider of electronic medical records (EMRs) has a bird's-eye view of the impact EMRs is having on doctors, patients, and healthcare delivery, and she shares her perspectives on the future of data-driven, patient-centered medicine in an interview published in the new peer-reviewed, open access journalzine Healthcare Transformations.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-electronic-medical-patient-portals.html
HealthMon, 05 Dec 2016 12:49:43 ESTnews400164505Advocacy and community health care models complement research and clinical careGlobal lung cancer researchers and patient advocates today emphasized that new models of delivering care and communicating about cancer care play an important role in the fight against lung cancer. Their remarks come on the first day of the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Vienna, Austria.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-advocacy-health-complement-clinical.html
CancerMon, 05 Dec 2016 11:35:48 ESTnews400160141Alpha blockers more effective for large kidney stonesNearly one in 11 Americans will have a kidney stone in their lifetime, causing pain, sometimes missed work and, often, a lot of money.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-alpha-blockers-effective-large-kidney.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesFri, 02 Dec 2016 09:52:54 ESTnews399894764After decades of research, why is AIDS still rampant?Today is World AIDS Day. More than three decades after the virus was first discovered, 5,753 people will become HIV infected today.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-decades-aids-rampant.html
HIV & AIDSFri, 02 Dec 2016 06:30:01 ESTnews399882127Short-term sleep deprivation affects heart functionToo little sleep takes a toll on your heart, according to a new study to be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-short-term-deprivation-affects-heart-function.html
HealthFri, 02 Dec 2016 06:07:36 ESTnews399881247In cancer immunotherapy, one PD-L1 test to rule them all?Clinical trials have proven the power of immunotherapies targeting PD-L1 or PD-1 in a range of cancers. However, these same trials show that only some patients benefit - tumors must depend on PD-L1 to be affected when medicines block its action. In response, the companies Merck, AstraZeneca, Genentech/Roche, and Bristol-Myers Squibb together with the diagnostic companies Ventana and Dako have developed four tests to predict which tumors do and do not express on PD-L1 and thus which tumors will respond to the therapies. An ambitious collaboration between these companies and research organizations including the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the American Association for Cancer Research, and academic medical centers including the University of Colorado Cancer Center, results in a study published online today in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology comparing these four tests.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-cancer-immunotherapy-pd-l1.html
CancerThu, 01 Dec 2016 18:52:04 ESTnews399840714Blood, flies, agony: inside Venezuela's hospital hellPlumber Freddy Herrera broke his leg in four places when he crashed his motorbike nine months ago. But his real troubles started when he got to hospital.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-blood-flies-agony-venezuela-hospital.html
HealthThu, 01 Dec 2016 06:08:10 ESTnews399794883Study of thousands of operations finds overlapping surgeries are safe for patientsA common way of scheduling surgeries to expand patient access to care and improve hospital efficiency, known as "overlapping surgeries," is as safe and provides the same outcomes for patients as non-overlapping surgeries, a Mayo Clinic study has found. Spacing operations so a surgeon has two patients in operating rooms at the same time is a common practice in surgery at Mayo and other leading medical institutions. It gives patients greater access to qualified surgeons, allows more efficient use of operating rooms, and avoids unnecessary downtime for surgeons. A Mayo Clinic study compared the outcomes of thousands of such overlapping surgeries with non-overlapping operations at its Rochester campus and found no difference in the rates of postoperative complications or deaths within a month after surgery between the two groups. The findings are published in the Annals of Surgery.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-thousands-overlapping-surgeries-safe-patients.html
SurgeryThu, 01 Dec 2016 05:09:01 ESTnews399791326The tax man cometh: California ponders legal pot, paying upCalifornia's legal marijuana industry is expected to involve everything from backyard growers to sprawling fields in the farm belt, storefront sellers along rural roads to chain-store like outlets in Los Angeles.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-tax-cometh-california-ponders-legal.html
HealthWed, 30 Nov 2016 16:18:10 ESTnews399745085Fewer Americans struggle with medical bills: report(HealthDay)—Fewer Americans are struggling to pay medical bills now than five years ago, a new government report shows.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-americans-struggle-medical-bills.html
HealthWed, 30 Nov 2016 15:20:01 ESTnews399740280Preemies often receive gastroesophageal reflux meds(HealthDay)—Thirty-seven percent of premature infants receive gastroesophageal reflux (GER) medications, with more than three-quarters initiating medication use after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), according to a study published online Nov. 23 in Pediatrics.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-preemies-gastroesophageal-reflux-meds.html
PediatricsWed, 30 Nov 2016 15:03:45 ESTnews399740618Cartoons help children decide on participation in researchChildren are often able to decide for themselves whether they want to take part in medical research. In order to be able to make an informed decision, they need clear information. PhD candidate Ronella Grootens set a good example and created a cartoon story. PhD defence 6 December.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-cartoons-children.html
PediatricsWed, 30 Nov 2016 08:10:01 ESTnews399715226For refugees seeking asylum, medical exams are in short supplyThey come from war zones and terrorist strongholds. From places where being the "wrong" religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation is a crime. From countries where sexual violence and mutilation are considered normal.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-refugees-asylum-medical-exams-short.html
HealthTue, 29 Nov 2016 13:35:56 ESTnews399648939Children with medical and psychiatric disorders have driven increase in hospital usage and costsThe number of children with psychiatric illnesses admitted to pediatric hospitals in the United States has increased sharply in the past decade, according to a study led by Dr. Bonnie Zima, professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-children-medical-psychiatric-disorders-driven.html
PediatricsTue, 29 Nov 2016 07:08:35 ESTnews399625704Many primary care doctors are reluctant to talk about medical errors, study findsWhile most primary care physicians would provide some information about a medical error, only a minority would fully disclose important information about potentially harmful medical errors to patients, a new survey shows.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-primary-doctors-reluctant-medical-errors.html
HealthMon, 28 Nov 2016 15:43:08 ESTnews399570179Marijuana in Massachusetts—what happens now that it's legal?Massachusetts voters on Nov. 8 overwhelmingly approved the legalization of recreational marijuana. The new law will take effect Dec. 15, but there are still some questions concerning regulation, possession, and distribution.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-marijuana-massachusettswhat-legal.html
HealthMon, 28 Nov 2016 09:30:03 ESTnews399546139Weed is winning, but the train could still go off the tracksWeed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not by a long shot.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-pot-tracks.html
HealthMon, 28 Nov 2016 02:44:18 ESTnews399523454Targeting breast cancer metabolism to fight the diseaseHow does a cancer cell burn calories? New research from Thomas Jefferson University shows that breast cancer cells rely on a different process for turning fuel into energy than normal cells. The results were recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-breast-cancer-metabolism-disease.html
CancerMon, 28 Nov 2016 02:17:15 ESTnews399521821Survey IDs factors influencing physician recruitment(HealthDay)—Factors that influence whether an internal medicine physician will accept a position include opportunities for improved work-life balance as well as compensation, according to an article published in Medical Economics.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-survey-ids-factors-physician.html
HealthThu, 24 Nov 2016 12:10:01 ESTnews399210988